From Andrew Crombie Ramsay 10 July 1864
7 Victoria Terrace | Beaumaris,
10 July 1864
Dear Sir
I asked Stanford1 to send you the 2nd Edition of a little book in the hope that you would burn the 1st., which for reasons told in the preface to the new edition, was badly written.2 There is much new matter in the 2nd Edition, but all I specially care about your reading is the new theory of the Denudation of the Weald.3 During the progress of the Survey work4 there it has been gradually “born in upon me” & I am convinced it is in the right direction, & also that the whole subject of escarpments, Oolitic & Cretaceous both in England & Germany, wants revision.5
Pray do not take the trouble to reply to this, & believe me | Ever truly yours | Andw C Ramsay
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Ramsay, Andrew Crombie. 1872. The physical geology and geography of Great Britain. 3d edition. London: Edward Stanford.
Summary
Sends 2d ed. of his Physical geology [1864]; hopes that he will burn the 1st because of its errors.
ACR is convinced he is right about denudation of the Weald.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4557
- From
- Andrew Crombie Ramsay
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Beaumaris
- Source of text
- DAR 176: 12
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4557,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4557.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12